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While our last Painted post waxed philosophical with a tale of two Christmases, this selection made me smile. What could...
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Ludwig is a writer for Highlark with a strong interest in the classics.
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Christmas is just around the corner, and for those of us living in the free world Christmas will be a...
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As winter looms closer and closer, a chill lurking in the air — escaping to Richard Parkes Bonington‘s Venice Grand Canal, Sunset with its sun-drenched buildings feels like a vacation… at least for the mind. Since this painting doesn’t have much in the way of characters, at least not characters...
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I recently watched Steven Spielberg’s Jaws… so, when I saw John Singleton Copley‘s Watson and The Shark which is allegedly...
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It’s been 3 days since I started “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefevre, and today I’ll finish it....
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In Jacques-Louis David‘s The Oath of the Horatii, from the year 1784 — we catch a glimpse of Enlightenment idealism and the glorification of Spartan ideals that would ultimately lead to the French Revolution; the abolition of the French Monarchy, and the year “1793” which is also infamously known as...
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This week, we take a look at Raphael‘s “School of Athens.” It’s an image we’ve probably seen somewhere or another,...
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Eugene Delacroix‘s “The Liberty Leading the People” was mentioned in a book I just started reading, David Priestland’s “The Red...
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After Halloween, and with an advancing chill in the air, Julian Alden Weir‘s “Fireside Dreams” felt like just the thing. Cute dogs lounging around on a fur carpet with a handful of random metallic objects painted with a warm hue. There isn’t really much going on in this painting. It...
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“Don Quixote” by Miguel Cervantes blew me away. For a long time, I had put it off because I was...
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Among recent fact based techno-thrillers, Michael Crichton‘s “State of Fear” is amazing. There are people whom consider this book a...
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For this week’s installment — instead of focusing on a single painting, it seemed fitting in the spirit of Halloween to “treat” Highlark readers to a handful of creepy paintings by some of the creepiest art masters around. To kick things off we have Franz Stuck’s “Autumn Evening” that features...
